--- title: The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal, diving at over three hun… — Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest · tree and pragmatics description: The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal, diving at over three hundred kilometres an hour with its wings folded like a bullet, and bumps in its nostrils help it breathe. Who acts: peregrine falcon, bumps, bullet. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peregrine falcon, bumps, bullet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:5 # text = The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal, diving at over three hundred kilometres an hour with its wings folded like a bullet, and bumps in its nostrils help it breathe. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 peregrine peregrine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 falcon falcon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 diving dive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl 10 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 over over ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nummod 13 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 20 folded fold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bullet bullet NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 bumps bump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the peregrine falcon | the fastest animal | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dive** | gerund | the peregrine falcon *not said here* | | | hundred kilometres | | with animal's wings | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at kilometre=Location | | 3 | **fold** | participle | | animal's wings *not said here* | | | | like a bullet | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **help** | present | bumps in bullet's nostrils | bullet | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **breathe** | infinitive | bullet *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:5`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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